Hi all, I've been hacking away at this for a little while now: http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/RamdiskRescue which uses parted extensively for a lot of operations.
Recently I realised (while testing smaller cards) that the cylinder size was defaulting to 8225kB when creating and new label + partition. Of course, this is way too large for a 16MB card ;) The way I've got around this is by using fdisk to create the label and partition instead, which usually results in a cylinder size of 32KB. It also takes a lot longer to execute :(. I've also had to start working in sectors, rather than cylinders, which is a bit more painful. Convert logical to primary -------------------------- Initially, I had a function (which worked) which was written because cards formatted by PocketPC contained an extended partition with a single logical fat32. It worked by performing a dummy resize of partition 5, removing both table entries, and creating a new primary with the same start/end as the previous logical. For some reason this no longer works, (although I can't tell you when/why it stopped;) any suggestions on how to do this properly? Marcus. ps. hope this is the right list :) _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
